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Sorry, Dorothy, it’s going to take a lot more than clicking your heels.
On Monday, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History launched a fundraising campaign to restore what is widely considered its most popular artifact: a pair of ruby slippers from the film The Wizard of Oz. The institution is seeking $300,000 by November 16 through a Kickstarter campaign called “Keep Them Ruby.read more

WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian?s National Museum of American History will loan its pair of the famous Ruby Slippers Judy Garland wore in the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz for six weeks. The slippers will reunite with Dorothy?s bl...

Dorothy's iconic ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" could use some magic from Glinda the Good Witch, but they'll have to settle from some assistance from the public instead: The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History h...

The Smithsonian is looking for a legion of good-deed-doers to help save Dorothy Gale’s ruby slippers. Though the shoes found their forever home in 1979, when an anonymous donation brought them to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of...